Jez is a singer, songwriter and performer who seems in constant ‘stretch’ – always travelling, pushing himself and taking on new roles. For Unlimited he went further than ever before – challenging his fears and the expectations of others. Love it. Jez Colborne is a composer, musician and performer with Williams syndrome. As a child [...]
Find out how a painting displayed in the MAA Cambridge pushed Rachel Gadsden to develop a golden project for the Cultural Olympiad. Rachel, an award winning artist travelled to South Africa to meet and collaborate with a group of artists, who like her, are kept alive by medication after chancing upon a painting that spoke [...]
Comedian Laurence Clark defies the usual tags of who can do what and why and takes our thinking for a swing in The Space in his first PUSH ME short. They said he was an inspiration when he started to do stand-up, when he got married and when he became father, but Laurence has never [...]
What’s happening inside the belly of 3 Mills Studios? A brilliant choreographer putting her movement on the dancers. Go check out The Space and see 90 seconds of an epic production finding its feet. Leaving Limbo Landing is an ambitious new outdoor production by Caroline Bowditch performed in air, in water and on land exploring [...]
A non-stop whirl of feverpitched acrobatics, cycling and hula-hoops to infuse your Thursday thinking. Let Stumble danceCircus play for 90 seconds in the Space. Stumble danceCircus presents Box of Frogs – a circus show with a difference. Five acrobats and two musicians play with the audience’s expectations of mental ill-health and performance, against a backdrop [...]
Take a few moments out this morning to see a few private dance movements in the making. Janice Parker takes us behind the world of Private Dancer to discover dance as it is rarely seen. Here you don’t have the security of hiding in an audience of masses. Here you watch performances one on one. [...]
We aren’t the only ones counting down – Watershed, the executive producers of PUSH ME are also on a roll, showing one PUSH ME short a day too until 2nd Dec and then hosting the cinema premiere of the documentary Total Permission at their base in Bristol.
Our top tip for Tuesday – a dash to the kitchen for a perky wellness brew! Spare 90 seconds to take tea with artist Bobby Baker and find out why her latest performance, Mad Gyms and Kitchens, reaches the audiences her other work hasn’t been able to reach. In the making, Bobby Baker’s first 90 [...]
Monday morning – another day, another 90 second wonder, and what could start your day better than Simon Mckeown and the consideration of beauty in all forms? For digital artist Simon McKeown, the movement of disabled people is something to be celebrated, promoting diversity and difference. Motion Disabled: Unlimited invites you to find the beauty, [...]
Did you catch this one too? Amazing physical theatre skills, amazing ariel skills – all in all an amazing piece. Suspended high in the air on ropes, Ramesh Meyyappan talks about his latest production, Skewered Snails – the darkly comic tale of a dysfunctional family powerfully told through his extensive and imaginative physicality, and that [...]
Remember this one? Beautiful movement captured beautifully. Claire Cunningham turns her crutches in to exquisite partners in her darkly humorous and deeply personal portrait, Ménage à Trois. This film is a taster, atmospherically exposing her signature movement skills in a dim underground basement of The Arches, Glasgow. Go on. It’s only 90 seconds (you’ve got [...]
Today we start our pre-advent countdown – always keen to get in ahead of the game. We have 24 short films and we have 24 days until United Nations International Day of People with Disability. Makes sense then to profile one short film a day, each day up until 2nd Dec – and what about on [...]
Sue Austin’s underwater wheelchair has made it onto one of VSauce’s popular ‘Mind Blows’ an online collection of scientific and unusual items. It’s it the collection here - about 3 minutes in. Trust me its worth watching all of it, if just to also see whale poop!